Reigning world champion Bagnaia will be joined at the factory squad by four-time race winner Bastianini in 2023 after he fought off Pramac’s Jorge Martin to claim the factory seat vacated by KTM’s new signing Jack Miller.
There were several flash points across the 2022 season in which Bagnaia and Bastianini locked horns on track, most notably at the penultimate round of the campaign in Malaysia when the former could have wrapped up the championship.
